About Octane
The Open Compression Toolkit is a set of modular C++ classes and
utilities for implementing and testing compression algorithms.
- Simple interface and skeleton code for creating new compression algorithms.
- Complete testing framework for validating and comparing new algorithms.
- Support for algorithms that use external dictionaries/headers.
- Utility classes and sample code for bitio, frequency counting, etc.
Learn More
Downloads
The current Octane distribution and documentation:
| Octane v1.01.20 (full package) |
download (1.5mb) |
| Octane v1.01.20 (source only) |
download (200k) |
| Documentation in HTML format |
download (600k) |
| Documentation in HTML Help format |
download (600k) |
| Documentation in PDF format |
download (1.6mb) |
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| May 19 2004 - v1.01.20 |
Minor Update
Fixed bug causing SubStrHuff to crash during compression in some cases.
Improved reporting of compression/decompression speeds.
For a detailed list of changes, see the release history page.
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| August 28 2003 - v1.01.19 |
Minor Update
Fixed bug in huffman coder leading to long bitcodes for unseen ascii characters
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| August 28 2003 - v1.01.18 |
Minor Update
Fixed error when compiling under linux; fixed some spelling errors.
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| August 14 2003 - v1.01.17 |
Minor Update
Added 2 new compressors/preprocessors by loco (zero-length encoder, move-to-front)
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| August 12 2003 - v1.01.16 |
Minor Update
Small spelling mistakes corrected; added a new sample compressor to show how to make non-statistical compressors.
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| August 11 2003 - v1.01.15 |
First Release
The first release of Octane is now availabe. Documentation
is also available for on-line browsing and download.
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| Links |
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You can visit us on the efnet irc network in channel #octane,
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